TECHNICAL TRAINING

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The project consists of: (a) refurbishing the Soldier Road Campus of the College of The Bahamas in Nassau to create an Industrial Training Center (ITC). The ITC will provide 400 training places for skills in craft, clerical and allied trades; (b) establishing new workshops and refurbishing existing ones for twelve high schools to introduce technical courses responding to local needs and requirements; (c) constructing and equipping an extension to the College of The Bahamas to establish (i) a Division of Technical Studies, offering 200 places for post-secondary school technician work, (ii) a Division of Business and Administration Studies, offering 200 places for post-secondary commercial education, and (iii) a Technical Teacher Education Unit providing about 50 places for the pre-service and in-service training of teachers to give technical courses in the high schools; (d) providing relevant facilities and equipment for about 330 places in the Hotel Training College to enable it to respond effectively to the country's tourism development plan; (e) providing facilities, and equipment for the Department of Nursing Education for 180 training places for the training of nurses in areas most relevant to the population needs; and (f) financing specialist services and fellowships.